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Area scene: Mount St. Mary's softball team drops first two games

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02/22/2013 10:27:53 PM EST

The Mount St. Mary's University softball team opened the 2013 season by falling to Delaware, 5-4 in eight innings, and to South Alabama, 12-2, on Friday at the Jacksonville Invitational in Jacksonville, Fla.

Trailing 4-0 heading into the top of the seventh against Delaware, the Mount rallied by scoring four runs with two outs to extend the game to extra innings. Delaware loaded the bases in the bottom of the eighth and scored the game-winning run on a Mount error.

Against South Alabama, Mount St. Mary's Rachel Gavigan had an RBI double and Cat Clifford hit an RBI single in the loss.

In other Mount St. Mary's news, the Mount's men's lacrosse team (1-1) will host Delaware (1-2) at 12 p.m. today at Waldron Family Stadium at Emmitsburg, Md.

McDaniel moves back game time

Due to the overnight forecast, McDaniel College has announced a change to its Saturday schedule.

The start time of the Green Terror women's lacrosse opener against Elizabethtown at Westminster, Md., has been changed. The game will now begin at 3 p.m.

Gettysburg heads to Centennial tourney

A mix of veterans and newcomers will head to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for the Centennial Conference Wrestling Championship today.

With the conference meet no longer holding status as a qualifying tournament for the NCAA Division III Championship, many schools might hold back on sending their best lineups to eliminate the risk of injury at the conference event.

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Gettysburg is one of them, according to head coach Andy Vogel.

"The timing is a little bit difficult since our ultimate goal is to do well at the regional and national tournaments," Vogel said. "Our group may look a little different next weekend, but doing well at the conference is still a big deal to the guys who are wrestling."

McDaniel teams cited for academics

McDaniel College's men's and women's cross country teams were named All-Academic by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Friday.

The women's team was one of 197 Division III teams to earn the honor after posting a 3.445 culumlative team grade-point average. The men's squad was one of 141 Division III teams to earn the honor after posting a 3.33 cumulative team GPA.

To qualify as a USTFCCCA All-Academic Cross Country Team, the squad must have had a cumulative GPA of 3.10 through the 2012 fall semester.